...such as Time Warner Cable, wireless providers like AT&T and Sprint, and Voice over Internet Protocol like Vonage, means that Verizon has A LOT to keep up with. It would take an innovative managerial system to fight back against all this competition, which is exactly what Verizon had. When Seidenberg and his team decided to split the wireless and wireline sections of the company, they proved just that. They needed to protect the formation of wireless as the wireline segment provided more than just sales for all types of consumers. Even more importantly, with the purchase of MCI, they ushered in a new segment in Verizon Business that would bring even more to the table, shifting orientation toward global markets. The acquisition of MCI also helped with the transitioning culture jumpstarted by the growing wireless market, which was faster in nature than the wireline culture. MCI was entrepreneurial in culture, which helped Verizon adapt to the changing conditions of the business world. Verizon was the 800-pound gorilla market, largely due to their network. They leveraged their scale as both a buyer and a seller and everything was smooth sailing, until 2007, when Apple launched the iPhone in a partnership with AT&T. The only way to combat this kind of competition was to due something drastically innovative that would change the whole culture of...
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...transponders. Only recently, due to technology advances, have the price points dropped to where RFID is now feasible for companies to adopt. Wal-Mart was among the first commercial enterprises to select RFID technology to achieve improvements in the inventory supply process and theft control. Wal-Mart started the process of implementing RFID throughout its retail distribution chain by requiring its top 100 suppliers to use RFID tags by year-end 2004 on the pallets and cases they shipped to Wal-Mart. However, in 2004 due to the status of standards and limited tag production capabilities, manufacturers of RFID tags were unable to meet the volume of demand within Wal-Mart's desired time frame. As the standards further evolved, production capabilites expanded and price points kept dropping, Wal-Mart's implementation is now in full swing with most of their top suppliers delivering RFID tagged pallets and crates to all of Wal-Mart's distributions centers. RFID use has started to penetrate other corporate supply chains, but in many cases these implementions are closed loop systems. In other words, the RIFD is deployed within a particular corporation's supply chain, but not between them and their business trading partners. There are other applications which are also limited todeployment withing a single organization, such as tracking tools so they aren't left behind in the airplane after maintenance. 1ST ORGANIZATION TO LAUNCH RFID EMBEDDED CARDS: Chase Offers Contactless Cards...
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...Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology Author(s): Bruce Kogut and Udo Zander Source: Organization Science, Vol. 3, No. 3, Focused Issue: Management of Technology (Aug., 1992), pp. 383-397 Summary: Carlos Ip Introduction: Why firms exist? A prevailing view is that firms serve to keep in check transaction costs from self-interested motivations of individuals. Authors said that firms do better than markets in sharing and trasnfer of knowledge of individuals and groups within an organization. Knowledge is held by individuals, but is also expressed in regularities by which members cooperate in a social community (i.e. group, organization, network). • Suggesting that firms learn new skills by recombining their current capabilties. • Growth occurs by building on social relationship existed in a firm. • Cumulative knowledge of the firm provides options to expand in new but uncertain markets in the future. Paradox identified: firm growth efforts by replication of its technology enhances potential for imitation. Authors view the central competitive dimension of what firms know how to do is to create and transfer knowledge efficiently within an organization content, • Suggest that organizations are social communities in which individual and social expertise is transformed into economically useful products and services by the application of a set of higher-order organizing princples. • Firms exist because they provide a social...
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...University of San Carlos Nasipit, Talamban, Cebu City, Philippines CERAMIC INSULATORS: AN IDEAL FOR ELECTRICAL SAFETY By: Kirby Emmanuel C. Oraiz Frank Joseph P. Ruiz Ramel Joseph A. Derecho University of San Carlos Talamban Campus Nasipit, Talamban, Cebu City, Cebu INTRODUCTION: Science and technology are in continuous development. This leads to ever more demanding and intelligent technology. The demands made on modern materials are increasing with the same dynamism. The features that are demanded include greater strengths for material-saving constructions, lighter components for energy saving, higher quality for more security and longer service life. After all, cost-effectiveness plays a crucial role. Ceramic materials have in the past made an important contribution to this process of innovation. Requirements for the successful application of ceramics include constructions that are appropriate to the materials and the manufacturing processes, as well as appropriate applications. The point is not that common materials can be displaced, but rather that customised products allow completely new solutions. In order to make intelligent and effective use of the properties of ceramics, it is not sufficient simply to take an existing structural component and to replace it in every detail with a ceramic part. A drawing of the component used so far, however, together with a great deal of supplementary information, can show the way to the mass-produced ceramic component...
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...Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother and an inspiration leader. Her personal mantra ‘is that there no limits to what you do ‘. From a young woman born in India and immigrating to Unites States of America . Through sheer determination and ambition becoming at the age of 50 the first CEO of PepsiCo which under her management is now positioned at the 2nd biggest snack and beverage business worldwide by net revenue. Her goal is to define PepsiCo as a defining coporaration of the 21st Century. Atricles in the Wall Street Journel has claimed she is more powerful than Anglea Merkel. Indra Nooyi like a star rising ,has risen to the pinnacle of both her personnel life and global career making her one of the most influential businesswomen . The Forbes magazine lists her one of ‘The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’ a position she has retained and places in the top ten for the past two decades, a truly well deserved achievement as a leader in the world of strategic international business. 1.2 Abstract summary of biography. The autobiography is not a conventional story and begins with young Nooyi who was born to a middle class family in Madras India, in 1955. India renowned from being conservative when it came to women in society, this was not the case for Indra. She joined the girl’s cricket team in her school and fronted a female rock band, playing the guitar college in India. Indra Nooyis Mother played a pivotal role in defining her as a future...
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...Internal Environment Walmart: 1.Company Profile : * History : Walmart is a well known American company that operates retail stores including grocery stores, discount stores,wearhouse , clubs and combination of general merchandise store. It was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton along with his brother Bud in Rogers Arkansas. At the beginning he opened more stores in Arkansas but later he expanded walmart to Oklahoma and Missouri in 1968. In 1972 the company listed in the Newyork Stock Exchange. Walton group also introduced the Sam's Club Warehous store in Iowa ,Nibrasca ,Indianna in 1983. During 1980's the company rises considerably by reaching 25.8 billion dollars sales with almost 1,525 stores and 271,000 workers at the end of the decade. In 1990's walmart considered as a largest retailer of the nation and it continued the acheivement by opening more stores within an outside country. The company entered in Japan by buying 36% stake of Seiyu in 2002 and Walmart increased its stake about 67% in 2007.According to the fiscal year sale of Walmart is about 469.2 Billion in 2013 with 2.2 million workers worldwide and 11 thousand stores under 69 banners in 27 countries. * Scale of Operation: The strong market position is the main strength of Walmart with more then 400 billion dollars revenue and almost 11 thousand stores worldwide and consumer trust that differentiate walmart from its competitors. Walmart can also acheive higher profit because of its huge size and it has a strong...
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...Evaluating company resources and competitive capabilities In the previous chapter we descrbed how to use the tools of industry and competitive analysis to assess a company’s external situation. In this chapter we discuss the techniques of evaluating a company’s resource capabilities, relative cost position, and competitive strength versus rivals. Company situation analy’external market circumstances and to its internal resources and competitive capabilities. The sopotlight of company situation analysis in trained on five questions: 1. How well is the company’s present strategy working? 2. What are the company’s resource strengths and weaknesses and its external opportunities and threats? 3. Are the company’s prices and costs compaetitive? 4. How strong is the company’s competitive position relative to its rivals? 5. What strategi issues does the company face? To explore these questions, four new analytical techniques will be introduced: SWOT analysis, value chain analysis, strategic cost analysis , and competitive strength assessment. These techniques are basic stragic management tools be-cause they expose the ccompany’s resource strengths and deficiencies, its best market opportunities, the outside threats to its future profitability, and its compertitive standing relative to rivals. Insightful company situation analysis is a precondition for identifying the strategic issues that management needs to address and for tailoring strategy to company resources...
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...Think Strategically This page intentionally left blank T H I N K STRATEGICALLY Xavier Gimbert Associate Professor, Business Policy Department, ESADE Business School © Xavier Gimbert 2011 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and...
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...A Project Report On ANDROID BASED STATIC WEBSERVER BY CONTENTS TITLE ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………. 1 Purpose……………………………………………………..………… 1.1 Scope…………………………………………………..…….……….. 1.2 Definitions, Acroynms, Abbrivations……………………. 1.3 Overview……………………..………………………………………. 1.4 SYSTEM ANALYSIS……………………………………… 3 Software Requirements Specification…..………………. 3.1 Hardware Requirements……………………………………….. 3.1.1 Software Requirements………………………………………… 3.1.2 IMPLEMENTATION……………………………………… 4 Modules……………………………………………………………….. 4.1 Accounts…………………………………………………………..4.1.1 Transactions………………………………………………………….. 4.1.2 DESIGN………………..…………………………….……… 5 UML Diagrams………………………………………………………… 5.1 Class Diagram………………………………………………………… 5.1.1 Usecase Diagram….……………………………………………….. 5.1.2 Sequence Diagram….……………………………………………….. 5.1.3 RESULT FOR IMPLEMENTATION…………………… 6 Output Screens………………………………………………………. 6.1 SYSTEM TESTING………………………………………….7 Types of Testing………………………………………………………. 7.1 TESTCASES…………………………………………………..8 CONCLUSION………………………………………………..9 ANDROID BASED STATIC WEBSERVER ABSTRACT Android is software platform and operating system for mobile devices. Being an open-source, it is based on the Linux kernel. It was developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). It allows writing managed code in the Java language. Due to Android here is the...
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...ANALYSIS OF MICHAEL PORTER’S GENERIC STRATEGIES AND ITS USAGE IN A GLOBALIZED BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT THESIS - BACHELOR HONOURS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION DIANA MARIA CAMACHO ARIAS TYPE OF DOCUMENT: DISERTATION TO OBTAIN THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR HONOURS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION APPROVED BY UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO – FACULTAD DE ADMINISTRACION INSTITUTION: ÉCOLE INTERNATIONALE DE MONTPELLIER FRANCE, MONTPELLIER, MAY OF 2009 ANALYSIS OF MICHAEL PORTER’S GENERIC STRATEGIES AND ITS USAGE IN A GLOBALIZED BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT THESIS - BACHELOR HONOURS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION DIANA MARIA CAMACHO ARIAS TYPE OF DOCUMENT: DISERTATION TO OBTAIN THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR HONOURS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION APPROVED BY UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO – FACULTAD DE ADMINISTRACION TUTOR: TIDIANE AW INSTITUTION: ÉCOLE INTERNATIONALE DE MONTPELLIER FRANCE, MONTPELLIER, MAY OF 2009 DEDICATION I dedicate this dissertation to every person that has allowed it to be possible with the critics, to the teachers and tutors that have awaked in me the interest in this topic and also the passion for the businesses strategy, to my family that has always supported me to achieve my goals and to develop myself as a human being and also as a professional, and finally but not less important to Gabriel that has been a huge support to bring this dissertation to a satisafactory end. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis would not have been possible without the generous assistance of the following...
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...ISBN 978‐9948‐03‐638‐8 Q uality Congress Middle East 2 Dubai (7-9 April, 2008) Creating an Architecture of Quality and Excellence in the Middle East: Responsibilities, Challenges and Strategies Proceedings of Congress Edited by Najwa Sami Dham & Syed Aziz Anwar e‐TQM College P.O. Box 71400 Dubai United Arab Emirates (1) ISBN 978‐9948‐03‐638‐8 Table of Contents Foreword ___________________________________________________________________ 6 Professor Mohamed Zairi, Chairman, Quality Congress Middle East 2 ______________________ 6 Research Papers ______________________________________________________________ 7 TQM and its Implementation in Higher Education of Iran _________________________ S.A. Siadat _____________________________________________________________________ M. Mokhtaripour _________________________________________________________________ R. Hoveida _____________________________________________________________________ 8 8 8 8 Quality: From Where to Where? ___________________________________________ 12 Alan Brown ___________________________________________________________________ 12 The Impact of Educational Quality Models on Schools’ Performance in Dubai ________ 20 Kalthoom Al Balooshi ____________________________________________________________ 20 Wafi Dawood __________________________________________________________________ 20 Management Education and Development in the United Kingdom _________________...
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